Aged 17, Butterworth began to work as a caricaturist and sports cartoonist on the County Express in Stockport. From 1932 he worked as ‘Gee Bee’ on the Daily Dispatch, drawing sports cartoons. When the Second World War broke out, Butterworth took over from Sam Wells as the paper’s political cartoonist and also contributed to the Evening Chronicle and Sunday Chronicle. His cartoon ‘Maltese Cross’ in the Daily Dispatch resulted in the island receiving that award in April 1942. Butterworth also illustrated Manchester United Football Club programmes for many years up and until the Munich air disaster. See Butterworth biography by Timothy S. Benson.
Cartoons for sale:
- SOUVENIR
10th June 1950 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- RUBBER BONES, 1951
- £400
- 20cm x 34cm
- Daily Dispatch 23/11/1951
- CHILD'S PLAY, 1951
- £400
- 24cm x 32cm
- Daily Dispatch
- "AND HE HUFFED AND HE PUFFED AND HE PUFFED AND HE HUFFED"
21st Feb. 1941 - £420
- 37cm x 21cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
24th Feb. 1949 - £400
- 32cm x 25cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed, 1948
- £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- SOLD
5th July 1948 - 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
This cartoon was published on the day the National Health Service came into being.
- Caption Displayed
7th Sept. 1946 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- No Caption, 1951
- £400
- 34cm x 17cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
28th Feb. 1952 - £485
- 38cm x 15cm
- Daily Dispatch
- SOLD
3rd Sept. 1951 - 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- THE CURTAIN IS DOWN - Except for a score of seats.
2nd July 1945 - £485
- 32cm x 28cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
2nd Oct. 1951 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- SOLD BACK SEA DRIVER?
21st Oct. 1946 - 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
1st June 1948 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- ON WITH THE SHOW
13th June 1946 - £500
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- ANOTHER LEGENDARY COUNTRY!
28th June 1943 - £400
- 32cm x 23cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
25th June 1946 - £450
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
5th Feb. 1946 - £400
- 29cm x 22cm
- Daily Dispatch
- NORTH-WEST FRONTIER MAN HUNT
12th July 1945 - £475
- 37cm x 18cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
23rd April 1933 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- HIGH FINANCE, 1945
- £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- GUIDE TO LONDON (Six Cabinet Ministers are abroad)
15th May 1946 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
17th Aug. 1948 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
10th Dec. 1947 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch
- Caption Displayed
17th Jan. 1952 - £400
- 32cm x 24cm
- Daily Dispatch